NEWS OF THE WEEK. — A telegram from Jacksonville, Florida, says that while Edward Rowe, a young Engiishman, was swimming in Cumberland Sound, with fiftean other boys on the 21st, he was struck by a shark, which bit off the ealf of one leg, Rowe was taken into a boat at once, but bled to death before medical assistance could be obtained. —An inflated alr bag, sald to answer the description of the Campbell alr ship bolder, passed over Louisville on the evening of the 21st. It wus watched for two hours, *‘went straight across the city from northeast to southwest, as if carried by a steady current, and appeared to be about two miles high.” The wife of Hogan, the missing aevonaut, has heard nothing from her husband and believes he Is dead. She left Jackson, Michigan, on the even ing of the for New York. says ber husband had with him $1000 in cash and a balloon and which he must have left with his friends.” Mr. Hamilton, owner of the sloop yacht Emma, al New London, reports that on the 19th, near Block Island, he passed Campbell's air ship, floating with the yellow side up. He did not know a and the air ship were missing or he would have examined 1b. —The tain of the Atlas li steamer Alene, which arrived at New York on the 22d, reports that on July 11th Bippolyte attempted to take Port- an-Frince, made several assaults, but was repulsed each time with loss. Subsequently Le retreated Croix des Bouquets, a point about nine miles from Port-au- Prince, where he er amped. What was variously supposed to bea ‘‘sea serpent’’ ora sswhale’’ has been seen at different Wisconsin, On the afternoon 20th the monster was seen in a shallow pool and captured. It was found to be a sea llon, 11 feet long, which escaped from a circus four years ago. James Averill, Postmaster at Sweetwater, Wyoming Territory, and Kate Maxwell, a notorious woman known as the *‘Cattle Queen,” were lynched by a mob of cowboys, near Sweetwater, on 99d. Their offence was chronie cattle stealing. —A young man named Smith Min nick. son of a prominent citizen of Har risonburg Virginia, was drowned Ina branch of the Shenandoah river on the 21st. Albert F. Whitman, aged nine years, and Henry F. Hamlin, aged ten, were drowned on the 22d while bath- ing 1 the Merrimac river at North Andover, Massachusetts, A heavy grain train on the Erle Railroad broke into three sections at Summit, a mile west of Middletown, New York, on the mormng of the 22d, and the cars ran down the grade. The second sec- tion ran into the first and the third section into the second. Ter cars were wrecked on the streets of Middletown, and the trestle of a coal yard was car- riled away. James MecCallough, a brakeman, had two ribs broken. main tracks were blocked until the ar- 91 qt -h She cal to City and Port Jervis, trict near Parkersburg, West Virginia, on the evening the 21st states that seventeen lives were lost, The tele gram says of the flood in Little Kan- awha Valley, 18th: The scene of the greatest dis- aster was on Pond creek, county, and Tucker creek, county. gether, and a cloud burst must have occurred near the watershed, Pond creek feet in an hour. The water spread from hill to hill, and car- ried all before it. Four men took re- fuge in Thomas's Mill washed away, drowned. Iy- home and of Wirt TOS6 5 perished, Thomas Hughes, , hong an | Francisco on the 23d. { a recent fire at Lu Chow destroyed 87,- { 000 houses. Over 1200 persons were { burned to death and 400 others killed, | Nearly 170,000 people were made home- less, and at last accounts were camping out without shelter and were dying at the rate of 100 a day from want and exposure, The authorities, it 18 sald, were providing for their necessities, —A severe storm of wind and rain passed over Morgan county, 11iinols, on the evening of the 21st, doing great damage to the crops, blowing down trees, fences and buildings, killing] horses and cattle, and severely injuring a number of persons, A heavy rain fell throughout Colorado on the even ing of the 22d, doing much damage. | and cellars in Denver were | rupted in various directions by wash- outs, i i —A freight train frightened a hors» in Harmony, Peana., on the 23d. Tha animal backed the wagon Over the throwing the Miss Nana Oppenbel- mer was thrown under the traln and Miss Amanda hlee and Misses Della and Florheim were badly The young ladies are daughters | in Pittsburg and prominent in Jewish Soclety. They { —An explosion of gas took place on 4 afternoon of the in No. 14 | shaft at Port Blanchard, 'a., operated by the Pennsylvania Coal Company. Harris, an unknown burned, first 23d, Hungarian, were the Scott Todd, azed 10 years, and Charles Hoosier, aged 11, were drowned near Anderson, Indiana. On the evening of the 21st several hundred people gathered on the river bank to A rope was stretched across Lhe river, and to this Stephen Dilby was hanging in mid- | and was drowned in the presence of Lis wife | and two children. John and Jessie, aged 10 and 12 years, the only children of Edwin Denn, were drowned in Foster | creek, near Huron, Dakota, on the | 21st. While Lieut. Gov. Meikeljohn and W. H. Paton were bathing in | Cedar river, near Fullerton, Nebraska, | on the 21st, the latter was drowned. The Lieutenant Governor came near | sharing his friend’s fate in attempting to rescue him. —Frederick Wagner, Sr., stabbed his son Frederick while he was asleep at his home 1n Baltimore, on the even- ing of the 224. The falher tormerly served a sentence In prison for assault | ng his wife, and in a drunken mood on the 23d had driven everyone from the house, but young Wagner went home, in ending to prolect his mother a: d sister, The young IDANR MAY live, While William Baugh and Green were wrestling at Falrbush, Kentucky, on the evening of the 224, head with a handspike, causing death, him for housebreaking. Snow Was —Colonel Roger J. Page, a promi- teqister at Marion, North Carolina, murdered at that place on the | 294d, just after alighting | from a train, by an unknown assassin. homes. but the water overtook them, and none escaped but Hughes. On Jost, in the millions, There was another sudden rise in Elk and Poca rivers on the evening of the 10th. A great quantity of logs, ties, lumber, bay, wheat and oats was destroyed. A heavy rain storm, accompanied by high winds, prevailed in Northwestern Kansason the 20th. Several light frame buildings in Stockton were blown down and the zlsss was blown from several shop windows. Small grain crops were damaged, and washouts are reported sn the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, near Atchison. During a thunderstorm at East Brookfield, Mas- sachuseets, on the evening of the 20th, James H. Kerner, Louis Harper and James Corcoran were struck by light- ning and the former was killed. The sther two will recover. Lightning struck the house ef Samuel Layster, in White Wood, Dakota, on the evening 10th, killing a 22-year-old son of Layster and injuring a young child, The house was burned down. A dwel- ling in Sturgis and a school liouse at Fort Meade were damaged by light. ning. Sharpe’s dam, at dugar Grove, in the Hocking Valley, Obio, was burst on the 20th by a heavy storm. The valley for twenty miles, was swept of trees, fences and crops, and hun- dreds of heads of live stock were drowned. No human lives were lost, the houses being on a bluff above the valley. —Charles 11. Scotti, a young business man of Pittsburg, was shot and killed on the 21st by James Lebr, at the camp of the Pittsburg Fishing Ciub, at Con. flusnce, Pa., on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Lehr, the camp cook, was very drunk, and when refused liguor by the members of the club, Jdiew bis revolver, tbreatening to Kill some one unless liquor was given to him. The men in the camp fled, except Soott, who tried to talk with Lebr, The latter fired four shots at Scott, one of the bullets entering his lungs from the right side, Scott was a guest of the club. Ferdinand Kpaack has been ar- rested al Kauka Wisconsin, on & charge of poisoning his wife, whom he married last May, His first wife died rather suddenly, and It is now thoug" ‘hat be poisoned *. up | of them when the assassin Came behind and shot him through the neck, which was broken by the ball. After | firing the murderer got on a horse and | 1t is said that a woman was the cause of the trouble, and that ~M. H. Horney, while putting up an awning in the second story of a building 1n Baltimore, on the 234, fell i to the ground, and, striking his head, was killed. Joseph Larsen, aged 14 | years, was overcome by the damp while cleaning a well near Macedonia, Iowa, | and J. A. Wilson, who was lowered to | rescue the boy, was also overcome. —-A cave-in occurred on the morn- 24th in Hyde Park, Scran- A public-school building was badly dam- | aged, and twelve private residneces had their foundation walls cracked and doors badly jammed. Large fssures have opened in the ground, and in the centre of the disturbance the earth has settled ten feet. In the mine six cham- bers are affected, and the miners are unable to go on with their work. On the afternoon of the 24th, while a number of men wers removing the rock and coal from the chambers closed ‘n the Central mine, the lamp of one of the laborers ignited the gas and | caused a terrivle explosion, John i Williams and Robert Roberts were killed and four others wero fearfully burned, Two men were struck and killed by a Western express train at South Harrisburg on the morning of the 21st. One was apparently 20 and the other 30 years of age. A paper in the pocket of one bore the address of John Keiser, Jersey City. Three 14-year-old boys attempting to cross a brook at Lowell, Massachusetts, on the afternoon of the 21st, became entangled iu weeds, got beyond their depth, aud two of them, named Fortier and George Oyr, were drowned. Arnold Francis and a young mun ne Keim were killed on the 21st by the bursting of a rapidly re- volving milk and cream separator, at K mberton Creamery, near Kimberton, Chester connty, Pa. — Frederick Tullier, aged 24 years, a walter at the Hotel Gerlach, New York, on the 21st, fel! down the eleva tor shaft from the ninth story to the basement, a distance of 110 feet, and war Killed, ~Heavy and continuous rains are | paported from all parts of Kansas, ' Trains ars delayed by washouts, & | pa ~Chauncey age, shot and (atally w aged 28 years, at their home in Lake Mahopae, New York, on the 24th, then committeed suicide. Domestic trouble was the cause, During a fight in Detroit, Michigan, of the 23d, Morris Crawford was killed and Walter Mason badly injured. Their antagonists were arrested, Jos- eph Buchner has been arrested at Bad River, Wisconsin, charged with mur- der. He is an uncle of Mrs. Fuchs and 18 charged with beibg au accom- plice in the killlog, George Lewis, a negro, living near Belden, Texus, Was lynched on the evening of the 234 for poisoning the well of William Shaw, —A. J. Hodson, business partner of Mayor Mosby, of Cincinnati, died on the morning of the 24th, from injuries received on the Fourth while discharg~ ing fireworks. He was wounded in the face, and, although the wound healed, the shock caused a fever from which —A notorious Indian desperado, St, Lopki, was killed in the Indian Terrl- tory, on the 21s, by the captain of the Creek Indian Light Horse Company, i, 3 member of outlaws. It was he who, while under AITesL United States Marshal Philips and a with his handcuffs, St. a the killed. fight before LOopkl was —Mrs. Miranda Lawyer, wife 3ishop Law; hanged if | had the Time. y find a place full face to fac With hat stands no show my better self. © 1 I would see my soi nbling stifl toward the shining Zora) it be nerved by the thought sublime, if 1 nad the thine | mig 11 I had the time to let my heart Speak out and take in my life a part, "fo look about and streteh a hand To a comrade quartered on no fuck Ah. God! 11 1 might but just sit st itl And hear the note of the whippoor will, I think that my wish with God would rhyme ft 1 had the time! iand; 11 1 had the time to learn from you How much for comfort my wor ould 4 And I told you then of my sudden will To kiss your feet when 1 did you ill {f the tears aback of the bravado Could force thelr way and let) Brothers, the souls of us all ¥ If we had the t Washington Post, ‘% Know id chime ONCE "LOVED. myid; worse than that 1 plain. 1 tell you this beginning, so that if you \ of long ad I am an old am decidedly frankly, at the are expecting fi ventures, all rOWS SUCOEeREL0I the loves an WH fl of 4 oad 1 son y O11 O13 of one earth, yOu CAD INRkS ¢ disappoints l. : We 11, 0a I have said, I am excoecdil £19 3 1 ownright ugly | | | i i | ordinary, | that I were! something just one ol tl sol m ¥ , r sther a wall of Yea} ig UK years old, Kentucky, 224d, after living “0 -t +4 wie suicide on — It is said that the cotton crop of that the corn crop will be Reports concerning the of cattle and crops throughout Want of water is felt it is sald that the was expected, in many sections, but | qu { le sir the © 1Y dis \ y graau eyes | - his has father, stepmother confessed to murder purchasing teapot. April 20th a statement Was struggie, Limit to a Life in which the firm Was interested, and of Isaiah are largely in the Williamson estate, The are mainly New England and New York banks and houses, happen » nite nd a taliure it is impossible to estimate. —While Mrs, William Elwood Crossing, at Washington, Penna., on the 26th, the horse became frightened and dashed into a freight train. died soon after. Mrs, McVey was thrown from her carriage, near Fayette While Michael Merkel, a was cleaning a gun on the Two freight trains collided at Bedford, Perry Cook, fireman, had both legs crushed, and died In a few hours. —News was received at Parkers- that State, from West Fork and Heary Fork. “Every store from the head to the mouth of the forks are goue or ruined. Houses, fences and crops are washed away and several lives were lost. Not a sngle farmer or resident Hundreds are bank- rupt, and will have to be supported temporarily by the county. The Com- missioners estimate the loss in Lee, Tyaart, Slate and Stesle counties al half a million dollars, A its foundation, and many peopla are in the woods. Help is needed at once,” —1It is reported that the dead bodies of three men, pne colored, were found ing Station, Lake county, One of the bodies had nothing on but a ghirt. Each had a fatal wound on the back of the head. It is supposed they were murdered for plunder. J. Over- man, a jealous lover, shot and killed Maggie Smith, mn Peru, indiana, on the evening of the 24th, and then killed himself. —Dysentery is reported very preval- ent in Howard county and the adja cent sections of Baltimore county, Maryland. People of all ages are alike affected, aud many of the cases have proved fatal. ~The G. W. Levering Company, wholesale grocers of Chicago, made an assignment, on the 25th. The labl'l ties and assests are estimated each at from $40,000 to $60,000. —Twenty machines are at work harvesting wheat onfithe Dar mple farm and many smaller farms in Cass county, Dakota. This is about two weeks earlier than the harvesting time last year. The reports from the har vesters say that, while the wheat has not headed so thick as usual, the qual ity is unusually good, a much r than ever befors going No. hard. o | was literary naturalist in wanting to © animals for her menager of Wednes- dav evening invited me Now I had never attended a german, except in imagination with the lovely heroines of newspaper Stories, and was astonished at the idea that such a thing was possible "Tis true I had attended a few parties, and watehe d from a corner | the progress of coquetry between the guy Lotharios and their fair ones; but this was quite and sherthing. However, I really wanted to go; and since Mrs Browne had shown me 80 mu h kindness and even sent her to say he would be happy to atl nd me,” I de cided to do ais, Of QOourse i had to ex- amine my plain wardrobe, and plan considerably, with my go wlaunt's help, to make a decent appearance, and 1 scarcely knew mys 1f when I was envel. oped in all the pretty things suitable for the oceasion When 1 finally found myself in the spacious parlors of Mrs. Browne, and | heard the hum of joyous voices, the 13 siiect iris of curious wT cousin | lively chat, and rems mbered that I was really old Kitty Bell, with no pretty ways and admiring friends like other | girls, T admit feeling a pang, all my | philosopliy to the contrary notwith- standing. But 1 soon became edified and amused { in watching the course of divers little ! firtations. Yonder was a tall, dark- eyed, fine looking young man who, 1 soon perceived, was quite a lion among the fair ones. He was decidedly the centre piece of the picture—the reign- ing bean of the season. As for belles, there were two or three struggling for the ascendancy, and whether one or the gines triumphed was ascertained by the Rtentions of the superb Mr. Sunder land. I amused myself in waiching the course of things till my eyes airly ached, when I betook myself to some volumes which graced a side table to catch breath in my natural element, 1 turned over a fow leaves, read a half a dozen verses of Moore's, and raised my head to encounter Mr, Sunderland's eyes fixed admiring] uponme! Thank fortune, I always had strong nerves, so I did not faint, but kept on the even tenor of my way. I beheld the gentle- man seck out Brawne, That lady in turn glanced at me, and in another moment the two had advanced toward the corner where I sat, and “Mr, Sun- derland” was troduced to *“Miss » Bell. ¢ us up, I could tounded. However, 1 conjecture, as the ger sirous of entering in versation. Bup« rb w oman! the german?’ I was not in the germans, 1 told him. “Ah! he suspected telleetnal pursuits, choice. He did not faction in these ght ments. He was sympathy in a highs ment. For the first time } inconvenience of not ated into the jut, regrets was obliged to fall and r forward manner i "Pixs true EEE ny sle since COMmMmon sense, of th (po g1 hl gust my After that memors rogressed attended oper I ' . lectures, and what 1 Owl world was opened In i r what { stot CRITE, fo 1: i in the } amid a pleas and 5 ie, wii know what asccider bea organ that § hak vind just a ciph PIs 0 fortres f min i ; end. The “ sionate letters. All put to rout. The n earnest—really, Here humanity—and him. nt WAS A Very spirit ceased sent no gtreot and hi the re ever be an en transition was quite ing a storm; but the were mine, again as of cld Still 1 wondered wondered to the pr circumstance Message. One day Frank settle some busines my uncle. It so haj gentleman Frank conde with me. He ingm the german, and fins Yous look, 10OW and begged him to eeedingly. When sufficiently madd interpret for yourse Of course 1 ins it “Wall, then, Mr. Ryder were standing you were looking gide of the table, fair one, fine bird to eateh-—-t say.” They —yonrself! Is that It ought to have 1 laughed heartily, felt just a little counted up 1 have rela lot, now that I have Abuse may not like the former, been more as had little time for wleman seemed de- to immediate con- Mrs, i Aegan Was I fond of habit of attending { was fond of in- H honored my himself find satis- , frivolous smuse- wt happy to find r grade of enjoy n my life I felt the having been initi- ris of small talk. HO avail, $1 rate. 1 readings, with Mr, Bun- A new 1 saw my own read and noble truths, from the lips ] I sat roOON 10k, before me ecard with 1 only nul f (is vith BEUTC 6 my esco n, Id have befallen my bh Iv he a All i had rt . t mi ie Was #4 wre rat WAS no art was uo BUINErous pas philosophy was to be In in earnest. ow specimen of oald not fathom o'er the INIKKIVER not CACY The Canc met him on the me not. Would 1 of mysteries? The like a calm succeed- of the chase down iand spoils . and might have esent day had not a by which the Browne oa led to s transactions with Jb ned that the old and consequently red how 1 enjoyed lly, with a mischie- solve the strange to enjoy ex he had recovered sted upon hearing Supderland and Ed a moment sogether; over a book, and at the opposite h her would be a hat girl over there child, and her they satisfactory? be SORSON. LL 1 and found I had in into an old content with my a lover, be criticism, but HORSE NOTES, There have been 147 additions to ists this season, Book betting has again been done Fl Bio Bey appears to be about best 2 year-olds of the year, Lorillard won 32000 on Biggonette at Monmouth, on Raturday July 20th, one of the -1’lerre a y It is said that Suisan, b. wm. by Electioneer, in John E, Turner’s si can beat 2.20 handily, —The Mount Holly the meeting on October 7 yunts to $20,000, hat centrifugal water-sprinkle: used on the stretch at Belmont Course does its work nicely. hie 1018, premium list to 12 for —Sheemaker & Scattergood paid $2200 for the ch, g. Jessie H., by High- ef, pacing record 2,184. It is said hie can go a mile in 2 land C1 . 19%, Jiminy McLaughlin 1 left Chicago Stable and 18 now at Monm Park. He will probably Haggin for the season of 1880, Among the horses named in the 2.20 stallion class . trict, San Francisco, In Ansel, Dawn, Alcazar, M and Direct, Tt 148 wr N. Y., has prove proper name being made a record of 2,25 at thiree years ago. ~ rivers Dee wi 1 iJ Lao sometimes let their bh getting the word, judges will not be as them for a break at break at other places on knowin — Island Park will follow Detroit's example and make the opening cay | the Grand ircuit meeting al the public As the 4-year- not fill, a purse of $500 fo 8 has been subst to sting his stock at bi, to Montana, D. Quintin purchased for Marcus his employer, the b. m. Fannie erspoon, record 2.163, two-mile record, 443. and the b., m. Belle F., 2.154. sre record D. Withers® chestnul filly, 2 years, by Kinglike, dam Miss Bassett, by Lexington, collided wilh another at Monmouth Park and broke her necessitating her being destroyed. Mr. Withers says she was one of the best of his lot, ~The programme of the inaug iral meeting of the New York Jockey Club, Westchester, N. Y., is out and is a most unique affair, The meeting leg, will commence on August 20 and continue antil August 831. The added mouey amounts to $86,500, —The Elkton Stock Farm stallions, New York Dictator and Merit. were given lif mile trials recently, the first openings they have had this 3 Crouch drove the former in L the latter in 1.21, over the Las Elkton, Md, —Many drivers consider feed often in g protracted order to keep up the strengih Joe Jefferson fed oats tween heats mn the 2.20 pacing race at Belmont { recently, Little Ida, winner, was allowed nibble at grass and oats, The O-year-old Walton—or rather will be known since ringing tour jast fall in the South—is at the { leve- land tracks and has already sto ped the watches in 2.194. She 1s by neral George H. Thomas, and hasa §-year- old record of 2.27%. BeASOn. wong i horse. WAS Ourse the to mare . US SUSE 846 Ge — Nearly 100 trotters are in training at the Buffalo Driving Park. Ww. J. Andrews has 26; W. A. Garlick, 15; C. F. Dunbar 4; Howard Conkling, 18; W. Summers, 17; Gerbard Lang, Gus Fleischman, J. lL. Moore, S. 5. Scheu, G. R. Beardsley, and George Efver also have several trotters there, — Daniel De Noyelles offers to match his 2-year-old filly by Nutwood, out of Adelaide, against any colt or filly of the same age by an undeveloped dam. Mr. De Noyelles’ filly was not broken to harness until April, and be stipulates that the acceptor of the challenge shall pot name a colt broken apd trained at an earlier date. —A New Jersay circuit has been formed. It embraces the half-mile tracks at Morristown, Waverly, Free- hold, Trenvon, Flemington, Somerville, and Mount Holly, and will hold its meetings in September and October, after the horses have filled their en- gagements at the big tracks. About $34,000 will be given in purses. ~The Washington Park track at Chicago seems to be the fastest in the country this season. There have been innumerable six furlong dashes run in less than 1.15, the four and a half Tur- long record has boen lowered to 55 1-5 seconds, the mile and soventy-yard rec- ord reduced to 1.45 4-5 by Gilford, and a mile has been run by Maori, an ime ported Gly, in 1.39 4-5, the fastest time ever made in a race, and but a fraction behind the record which Ten Broeck established in 1877, when running against time on a prepared track with a running start, Other fast performs- ances on the track have been five far- longs in 1.014 by Daisy ¥., by Macduft, a 2-year-ola, ing 112 pounds; the same distance by El Rio Rey. same age, the brother to Emperor of Norfolk, in 1.01, with 120 pounds; a milé in 1.41% by Gardner; the same distance in the same time by Princess Bowling and Joe Courtney, the latter a 3.year-old, with 118 pounds; the same distance by Ka joolah in 1.41 3-5; a mile and a furlong in 1-584, and agaln in 1.5325, and a mile and a half by Elyton in 2.544, only half & second slower than the record. —W. 8, Barnes, of Lexhgton, Ky., has of T. Des Cognets, of the same the brown filly catelle, 2 years, y Himyar, dam Booty, by Asteroid, for $4500. —At Brighton on the 12th of July, Dave S., won the first 65 in the mutuals 110.50 for a two straight race, straight only sold There was four place tickets on him. :